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The Pickup Place / Re: Machine vs Scattered wound vs Hand Wound

« on: May 13, 2019, 02:21:35 PM »

[I know that many manufacturers use machines to wind pickups to specific specs for consistent quality and reproduction of a particular pickup design.  I’m confident that DiMarzio’s modern day manufacturing process is consistent from pickups if the same model.

Yeah, I answered that. I used to work there.



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The Pickup Place / Machine vs Scattered wound vs Hand Wound

« on: May 12, 2019, 05:34:02 PM »

DiMarzio machine winds all their pickups. They can alter the winding pattern. I’ve been in their winding department.

Here’s the thing about scatter winding. It produces a slightly longer path for the wire, so it’s laying a little more wire on the coil. It also has each wrap farther away from the previous wrap. Some say this reduces the capacitance of the coil.

As someone who’s hand wound pickups for over ten years, I’ll add this; hand winding produces an entirely random winding pattern. If the winding pattern affected the tone, then one would expect every pickup you hand wind to sound different, right? But they don’t, as long as you wind the same number of turns.

So that shows that it’s not that important as people think. In the end, you design your pickups to sound the way you want on the winding equipment you use.

The rest is voodoo marketing. (i.e., a “famous” winder doesn’t make better sounding pickups, assuming it’s the same equipment and specs).


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The Pickup Place / Re: Older 70's Dimarzio SDS1 wiring question~~

« on: May 11, 2019, 07:47:29 PM »

Some very old DiMarzio pickups used whatever cable they had at the time.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickup Eyelets vs Soldering in the coil

« on: May 11, 2019, 05:31:42 PM »

Because they use plastic bobbins. So the bobbin would melt.

Humbuckers have the wires attached to leads and taped in the coil. It works fine.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Older 70's Dimarzio SDS1 wiring question~~

« on: May 11, 2019, 02:15:43 PM »

I’d guess the taped off wire isn’t connected to anything.


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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio and lack of single coil choices!

« on: May 10, 2019, 01:07:23 PM »

I’m a single coil guy, and I do like the FS1 and ordered it.  I wish DiMarzio pushed other pickup options for true single coils, to include P90’s.  They need improvement in this area.  I get the hum-cancellation singles, but they are not better than true singles, imho...ymmv.  Put some A2, various over wounds, mixed magnets combinations in the catalog.  Most small winders have more models of single coils than DiMarzio.  How ironic.  Seems like DiMarzio does not want to actively complete in the single coil replacement pickup market.

That’s Duncan’s market. Would DiMarzio even sell any?

I’m a pickup maker. I’ve mostly made bass pickups, and for those no one wanted real single coils, like Jazz Bass pickups. They wanted all the other stuff I make, which are hum canceling.

The small pickup makers all make the same stuff over and over again. How do you pick one over the other?

The other thing about DiMarzio is they make a lot of pickups for Ibanez and Ernie Ball. DiMarzio is not a huge company. I think they have all the orders they need.


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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio and lack of single coil choices!

« on: May 10, 2019, 01:02:22 PM »

How do you “advance” a single coil? What are you going to do to it?

Single coils are extremely simple pickups. And people that want single coils generally want a vintage reproduction.

DiMarzio did come out with overwound single coils with ceramic magnets and stuff back in the 70s.

I think they are more focused on noise canceling pickups. And some of their noise canceling pickups are very good, like the Virtual Vintage pickups.

That’s where the future is. Noise canceling pickups that sound like real single coils. 


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The Pickup Place / Re: DiMarzio FS1

« on: May 08, 2019, 08:17:49 PM »

It’s not a vintage style pickup. It’s a plastic bobbin. That has no effect on the sound of the pickup. 


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The Pickup Place / HB cover question

« on: May 04, 2019, 12:19:40 AM »

There's actually a picture in the link giving dimensions but not the E-to-e distance. I think its an F-hole spacing but I also read each brand PU has a slight difference in width so I'm looking for dimarzio to be sure.

Curious, why avoid brass?

DiMarzio F spacing is 53mm. The diagram for that cover doesn’t show the pole spacing.  Only the cover size.

The more conductive the cover is, the more high end is killed because of eddy currents. Brass is more vindictive than nickel silver (which is brass with nickel added).


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The Pickup Place / Re: Is this wiring possible?

« on: May 03, 2019, 01:54:38 PM »

Easy. All you have to do it take the series connection from the humbucker, and have a switch that either connects it to ground or hot. That will choose one coil or the other.  The push pull would between the series connection and the coil select switch. 


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The Pickup Place / Re: HB cover question

« on: May 03, 2019, 09:48:07 AM »

F spaced is 53mm. I don’t know what the covers in the link are since I can’t read it.

Also don’t buy brass covers. Some cheap imports are brass.


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The Pickup Place / Stacked/Noise Cancelling PUP in Middle on RG550?

« on: April 09, 2019, 11:04:47 AM »

It will still do the 2 and 4 sounds. It doesn’t have to be a single coil. However if you are coil splitting the humbucker it won’t noise cancel with the middle pickup, since it doesn’t have noise in its output.

Also the chopper is not a stacked pickup. It’s a regular humbucker. You can split the chopper for the 2 and 4 positions.

I have two guitars set up like this. I just leave the humbuckers in humbucker mode in 2 and 4. Gets stratty enough for me.



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The Pickup Place / Re: More Air

« on: March 31, 2019, 11:00:50 AM »

Or just use a weaker magnet. DiMarzio does the air thing so as not to use a weakened magnet.

You can also use cardboard shims if you don’t have the nylon washers. The idea is to put some space between the magnet and poles.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Ultimate Strat Sound Rail Pickup Configuration?

« on: March 29, 2019, 02:04:28 PM »

The 50k pot is the mid boost control. The volume pot that comes with that midboost is 250k. DiMarzio shows to use a 500k volume pot and 250k tone.

The value of a pot has nothing to do with inducing noise in the preamp. 


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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion noise?

« on: January 17, 2019, 07:46:43 PM »

Might be some weird EMI.

Not weird at all. Computers put out a lot of noise.



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